What models need fewer excuses and more action?

Thread is simple: what cars or trucks are you tired of hearing excuses for, when the manufacturer should be fixing them? (And why you feel that way.)

I'll go first with a few that are bothering me:

Cadillac ELR

The ELR has sold 774 units year to date. Why? It costs DOUBLE the car it's based on, and the excuse is an admittedly gorgeous interior and exterior design like a concept car. GM either needs to drop the price 15 grand or swap the N/A 1.4L assist engine for the 2.0T. Why not both?

Dodge/SRT Viper

With the SRT brand being shuttered, the Viper goes back to being a Dodge. Few will notice because they've only moved 438 of them off the lots this year. There are excuses galore with this sports car, and purists refuse to accept the idea of taming the beast to drive better. Tell that to the Corvette Stingray and the ~3,000 of them Chevy sells monthly now that it's a finely honed weapon.

A lesser V8 trim would work wonders for volume and profitability as well, because price is getting out of hand.

BRZ/FRS

This is a good looking, affordable sports coupe, but it's offering 200 horsepower 10 years too late and the limp sales back that up. Japanese sport-compacts of the past had better racing engines (wtf Toyota?) and we've all been wondering from day 1 where the convertible and high-performance versions are.

I read the title and assumed it was a Lincoln thread. I like your first two, the ELR has obviously been a let down from a sales stand point, and I'm not sure what Dodge needs to do with the Viper at this point. It's very disappointing to say the least. The Scion/Subaru twins, I don't think there's as much of an issue outside of those that think they built the wrong car (should've built a Supra mentallity).
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If anything needs fewer excuses Honda's CRZ takes the cake. It could have been a great car like the CRX but Honda's choice of a hybrid power train turned out to be a unhappy compromise that's not receiving many bites.

The new Mazda 6 needs a turbo and to get some speed going. Plus revising it's dash would be hugely helpful on this good looking car.
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BMW: I dont want to hear any more excuses about "its good except the numb electric steering" Other brands like cadillac and even subaru have done a much better job on this issue and have decent steering feel, no more excuses its been 3 years since BMW dumped the numb steering on the public.

Cadillac: Great job on the CTS/ATS chassis and the CTS Vsport as a total car. I dont hear many excuses for their crappy transmissions/shift programming on many models but it has to change. The ATS and CTS suffer crappy auto trannys(save the VSport) and do well at everything else. Get it done cadillac

Audi: another big offender for lifeless numb steering, even in sports sedans and sports cars costing 80k and more. No more excuses audi, fix your steering. Volkswagen does it better than you, you should be ashamed.

Honda: no more excuses, put decent brakes on your cars and give the public an enthusiast car that everyone knows you can make but are too cheap to take on. Honda/acura make no cars that I would buy as a driving enthusiast, that is pathetic when considering the company history with prelude, S2000, and NSX. No more excuses for accord sports having weak brakes, they stink. Fix it honda.

Mazda: I love the committment to building a drivers car, but put some sound deadening in those things, they sound like crap rolling down the road. And where is a competitive enthusiast powertrain? No V6 no turbo 4, really?

Ford: I appreciate the way ford has delivered in drivers cars with panache. Fiesta ST, focus ST, Mustang(2015 stang Hooray!). But what about a decent luxury car from lincoln OR ford? Midsize sports sedan? The fusion looks great but under performs. I am tired of the junk lincoln puts out... ughhh

Chrysler: great job on the JGC especially with the diesel, and the monster Hellcats, 300, charger. But the smaller car line is pretty bad... refocus and try to deliver better small cars and a miata type roadster using alpha blood.

Toyota: Need to pick up their game, living on past reputation for too long. Styling across many models stinks, maybe the ugliest brand out there. Its time for a DI turbo option, too many old stodgy powertrains across model lines.

Lexus: tame the predator grill a bit, introduce more engineering powertrain upgrades, like DI turbos. The RCF is a good start.

Infiniti: the drive by wire steering needs a lot of work... a lot. Good they brought back the hydraulic PS for next year, its one of the best. Powertrains options need to include DI turbos and DI in general... time to get down to powertrain engineering updates to catch up with competition.

Nissan: Direct injection, some turbo options, and a new brand styling across product lines is badly needed. Almost every nissan is ugly and cheap looking.

Hyundai: OK the new genesis sedan development with Lotus inspired suspension is a great start, excellent move. Move on to the coupe and make it competitive in chassis, suspension and steering.

VW: Good job on the new GTI, but much work needed on other models to be world class. And I know that reliability upgrades takes 5 years to be realized, but it had better be in the pipeline.

I understand that with the whole economic downfall, what 10 years ago?, that using the ford counterpart possibly saved them because when sales plumeted they weren't wasting the money on two chassis on vehicles not selling.

I'm a hufe ford fan and i love what theyve been doing but when i get a little older and can afford a luxury sport sedan i dont want to be frced to look elsewhere. Use the new mustang platform and strech it some and make something to actually compete with the CTS/ATS and then the germans! I guess i just want them sportier(RWD) and make a gnarly version with a V8 from a mustang. Again, something to compete with cadillac.
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I understand that with the whole economic downfall, what 10 years ago?, that using the ford counterpart possibly saved them because when sales plumeted they weren't wasting the money on two chassis on vehicles not selling.

I'm a hufe ford fan and i love what theyve been doing but when i get a little older and can afford a luxury sport sedan i dont want to be frced to look elsewhere. Use the new mustang platform and strech it some and make something to actually compete with the CTS/ATS and then the germans! I guess i just want them sportier(RWD) and make a gnarly version with a V8 from a mustang. Again, something to compete with cadillac.